couldn't care less

Idioms  

1. Also, could care less. Be completely indifferent. For example, Pick whatever dessert you want; I couldn't care less, or I could care less about the editor's opinion. This expression originated about 1940 in Britain and for a time invariably used couldn't. About 1960 could was occasionally substituted, and today both versions are used with approximately equal frequency, despite their being antonyms.

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couldn't care less

He couldn't care less if he was 16 or 66.

From BBC ● Mar. 15, 2026

Guardiola had claimed on Friday that he "couldn't care less" about Arsenal's recent stumble breathing new life into the title race.

From Barron's ● Feb. 21, 2026

Being a snarky 16-year-old boy, I couldn’t care less about society ladies or their suitors.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 5, 2026

"I'll tell you something that's going to get me in trouble, but I couldn't care less," he said, when asked how the nation can be fixed.

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2025

“And I couldn’t care less how Scythe Nehru feels. Old-guard scythes have obsolete ideas. They’re too set in their ways to see the wisdom of the Change.”

From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman

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